Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-10-01
NENSLETS.
Gathered From All Parts
of the Country.
Multum in Paryo.

Multum in Paryo.
The Cleveland Globe is now full.
fedged Democratic sheet.
Mr.. R. E. Rhodes, colored, is the
latest addition to the detective force 8,
Chicago.
Chicago has sixteen hundred teachers
in her public schools, but only two Of
them colored.
A colored company Is making prepar.
ations TO play Uncle Toms Cabin il
Nashville, Tenn.
The leading feather renoyator and
upholsterer Of Joliet, Ill, is Mr.. M.
BroWna Colored man.
Two Colored students entered the Ohio
State University at Columbus at the
opening of the fall term.
Mr.. Harry Weaver. colored, Of To-
ledo, Ohio, wears the champion sprin-
ters' badge of Lucas county.
Mr.. H. Clay Wolford young Colored
artist who has com pleted his studies in
Milan, Italy, has returned home.
There is less distinction made on rail
roads in Arkansas on account of color
than any southern state in the Union.
Mr.. Charles H. Lee, Chinaman, and
Miss Alice Beaman, Colored, were
united in marriage in New York few
days ago.
Prof. Fl. S. Bell, colored artist at
Milwaukee, Wis, has two large paint
ings on exhibition at the Milwaukee
state fair.
Revs. J. G. Price, of Salisbury, n. c.;
and A. Barry, of Louisville, KY, are
making temperance lectures in Nash
vile, Tenn.
Nine. Nellie Brown-M Mitchell has ac-
cepted a call to be leading soprano at
st. Johns Methodist Episcopal chucrh
in Jersey. N. II.
Mr.. Howe, of Wenona, ILL.,, has made
it known that he will donate $4,000 for
the foundation Of a Colored Baptist col.
lege in Memphis, Tenn.
Mr.. Herbert A. Clark, colored, a son
of Prof. Peter H. Clark, is reputed to
be the best guager in the revenue ser
vice at Cincinnati, Ohio.
Hon. J. s. Hinton and Prof. L. E.
Christy of Indianapolis delivered adj
dresses at the Emancipation celebration
in Terra Haute, Ind, last Thursday.
The greater part Of the splendid wooG
carvings in the Academy of Music Al
Philadelphia was executed bv Messrs
Alfred S. Casey and James Miller, two
Colored artists.
There are two colored men on the
Washington county. Mississippi, Demo.
cratic ticket. w. III. Harris candidate
for the legislature, and J. F. Marshall, 6
candidate for circuit court clerk.
A joint stock company under the title
OF Evans, Nicholson & Co. and the
Tennessee Grocery Co., recently opened
for business in Memphis. Tenn, under
the management of Colored men.
Romeo and Juliet Jackson, son and
daughter Of colored waiter, from Pitts
burgh, Pa, won the 800 prize for color,
ed twins, offered by Gov. Hill at the
East Aurora, N. Y. fair last week.
State Senator 7. T. Allain, of Iberville
Parish, La, has just completed under
contract $4,000 yards of levee along the
Mississippi river. He is the first Color
ed man to have contract of that kind
with the state.
The only position of trust held by 6
colored man under the state govern
ment of Massachusetts is by Jas. H
Wolf who is member of the Board O.
Trustees of the Massachusetts schoo
for the Feeble Minded.
The Colored people OF Smithfeld, N
c., own the entire business portion O
the city. The finest brick building il
which is situated a very fine drug store
and other places of business is the
property of colored men.
Mr.. Winston Edmunds, C olored ,fcunc
a $500 diamond which had been lost BY
Mrs. Mark Davis, wife of the proprietor
of the Davis house, Richmond, Va, las,
week. The finder was rendered the
generous (?) reward Of $15.
The following eminent Colored doctor,
were in attendance at the recent Medi
cal Congress, which was in session in
Washington, D. c.: DR.. s. LeCount
Cook, of Washington city; DR.. Rev. NJ
Hall, of Baltimore; DR.. Grant, of Bos
ton, DR.. Daniel Williams, of Chicago
and DR.. Mannaway, Of Florida.
Mr.. Henry Paris, white, a few days
ago married Mrs. Katie T. Edwards
Colored, of Hot Springs, Ark, and al
once left for his home in Chicago where
he is in business as a wholesale grocer
He made his bride wedding present O
310, 900 cash and a check for $5 900. The
bride had been married to a Colored
man from whom she was divorced.
A freak of nature has been discovered
in Waco, Texas, in the person of col
ored male child just two years old. Il
can talk just as plainly as any person
and can sing with remarkable skill. and
sweetness any song heard by this chic
can at once be sung by it. It can re-